Passion and Power

Chapter 84

"I wanna have your baby."

"You want to...really?" Minji asked, feeling gobsmacked. "We've barely seen each other this week. And that is...all on me. It's been really..."

"Shhh." Hanni said, putting her finger against Minji's lips. "I don't care about this week. The important question is what do you think about what I just said?"

"But what happened this week is very relevant to what you just said! Aren't you worried about my work? About how much I'll be around and helping? About..."

This time Hanni put her whole hand over Minji's mouth.

"I'm not worried about any of that." Hanni said, taking a deep breath before going on. "I'm worried about what you really want. Whether you know what you really want. And if you don't...that's OK but...just say so. We can talk about it in the future. Again."

Minji went wide eyed, reaching into the far recesses of her mind for an answer.

"I honestly...don't know." Minji sighed. "I guess I thought...we would wait a while before we re-visited the idea..."

"Well. I guess I have my answer." Hanni said, trying hard to smile and not to look disappointed. She reached out and took Minji's hand. "There's no rush. We have all the time in the world to figure this out."

***

That night after dinner, the two women decided to head immediately to bed. They hadn't spent much time together while they were both awake all week. Hanni pulled out a book while Minji took a quick shower but by the time she was out, she found Hanni asleep sitting nearly straight up against the headboard, her mouth sagging open, her book having fallen into her lap. Clearly she'd been trying to stay awake for Minji to return, but it had been a long day.

Minji wrapped her arms around Hanni's back and eased her down so that she was laying flat on the bed. She gently arranged the comforter over her and kissed the side of her face.

"Goodnight, my love." She whispered, then wrapped Hanni in her arms from behind and closed her eyes. Now that they were mated, Hanni's smell was like a balm to her harried thoughts. It reassured her that in the midst of all the stress and pressure, she didn't have to worry about the thing that was most important to her. That Hanni was hers, and loved her too. And nothing else really mattered.

Though Minji drifted off easily enough, she awoke with a start from a disquieting dream. She realized not only was she squeezing Hanni too quietly for her to sleep peacefully, but she had a sinking, almost stabbing feeling in the pit of her gut.

Breed her. A voice inside her head instructed. Her alpha.

Minji recognized her alpha's instruction, demanding she act. And that realization led to another, that she was painfully hard and pressed against Hanni's ass.

"Ohhhh." Hanni shifted, rubbing closer to Minji's cock. As she mumbled in her sleep. "Oh, baby..."

"Oh fuck." Minji moaned. Her fingers were already sliding into the back of Hanni's undies, moving lower over the skin of her ass. She teased her index finger down to tease into her soft, wet center, then froze. "She's asleep."

Minji quickly pulled her fingers away slowly, and tried to settle into sleep. She quickly realized it was impossible.

"Hanni..." Eventually she gave up, pressing a kiss to the shell of her ear.

"Ummmph." Hanni moved again, pressing backwards closer into Minji. "Minji?"

"Yes..." Minji said. "Are you awake?"

"Ahumm."

"Sorry."

"Sorry...for what?" Hanni murmured, sounding confused.